Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
TOM LANDRYEvery coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they’re so absorbed with what they’re doing.
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Most of the time, I don’t see the great catch or the long run. What I’m looking at is how the other team defended it.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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I don’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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I learned early in sports that to be effective – for a player to play the best he can play – is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.
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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.
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People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn’t afraid of that. And I wasn’t worried about getting fired.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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